Jon Fossoway

I think Mirri's magic healing works as Moqorro's. Give something, take something back. If this is the case, we've yet to see what Vic is about to lose: he got the superhuman burned arm already.

"Wanted him to?". C'mon, Bloodrave was gone like 20 years before the Bobellion even started.

Theodosius abandoned war altogether?

And what does "honor" mean in this context? Jon Arryn may as well have orchestrated the rebellion that deposed the Targaryens and, also, provoked the death of thousands. Were his motives honorable? Perhaps yes or no, but he had a purpose. Tywin Lannister saw his own House on the brink of crumbling under the poor leadership of his father, took it up to his own responsibility and went all the way, making an example of the Tarbecks and Reynes, so hard and cruelly his family regained fear and respect in his region and overall southern Westeros. Did he have a purpose? Yeah, he did. Point is, I don't think "honor" is correctly used to compare both Jon and Tywin. And, moreso, Tywin had more reasons (or at least jurisdiction) to do as he saw fit in a feudal system; Jon Arryn broke the rules & rebelled against the crown. Assuming he had part on the rebellion's schemes, of course.

If facing a member of royalty, I guess they wouldn't aim for the head, as the Snail did. Jousts are not death matches. But I also guess that, in the end, it is a matter of personal choice. If a Kingsguard don't want to joust a Targaryen (or whoever is in charge), fine. Rhaegar was an excellent jouster and Selmy and Dayne presumably played by the rules. Fair game, fair win or lose.

I'm not usually keen on knitting intrincate theories on ASOIAF because I don't think George is that complex in his knitting, but that figure of the hammer falling on a dragon fits quite nicely on Robert and Rhaegar. Another reading is that the hammer (as in old first men Hammer of Justice Mudd king) means justice. At the time of Hugh and at the time of Bob I don't think the Targaryen were much loved by the smallfolk, considering Aerys downward spiral into his mental problems and the Targaryens during the Dance, in general, organizing battles that were more like butcheries, that chiefly befell on damaging the smallfolk levies, population and families.

Qarth has some Constantinople vibes, having the triple walls and being a passageway between the free cities and Slaver's Bay & the far east.

I don't think it's controversial, just silly.

I doubt George had the means at the time (nor cared) to know how many times he repeated one word or another... Except for the "water marks" he attributes to each POV. For example 'if I look back" (Daenerys).

Logical explanation is that it was a volcano that suddenly broke up with mild to none prior signs of it happening. It left the town in shambles, so venturing pirates and slavers that probably saw the huge eruption, eventually came closer and took whatever people were alive to slavery and plundered whatever was left. Screaming caves could just be the winds in these cave systems the inhabitants used as part of the town. My only convoluted theory is (unlikely, of course) is that they dug too deep (being cave dwellers) and woke a Balrog.

To mount is a way the dothraki refers to sex (very few quotes you would find on that). Also to dominate (the stallion who will mount the world). But mostly it is used in-text for horses and transportation. Why would the Undying talk in 'dothraki' slang associating mounts with sex or marriage? No sense in that.

Eldest son with unstable father; kingdom needed a reliable warrior commander that represented the Crown.

Her marriage to Drogo failed very quickly in its political objectives, so it could be considered a waste of time. Her meddlings in Astapor failed horribly, and could cost her most trusted advisor, Barry, his life. This could be some plot advancement, but fundamentally she wasted time in Astapor. The fugitive part I agree, that will be a hard pill to swallow, but Daenerys has been making people swallow hard pills since the beginning of her arc.

I've maintained the notion that Daenerys will arrive Westeros fleeing from Essos. The mantra If I look back I'm lost is not there to just signal an aesthetic water mark of her POVs, they do signal her entire arc. He is constantly leaving stuff and people behind, and sometimes undeliberately producing damage, like in Astapor. She is breaking the established equilibrium in Slaver's Bay and she isn't working out durable solutions. I don't think other dothraki khalassars will join her, and the few still loyal to her will either fade or die. There'll come a point she runs out of allies and escapes Essos, all her essosi enterprises having failed, with a handful of followers. Westeros is the arena in where things will decide for good, Essos was a knot kept around for too long. To be honest, dothrakis in Westeros has no sense. They looked silly in the show already.

Frodo is 50 something years old when LotR begins. How do we feel about it? For me, it's fine. George is building this world with his rules. Kids are required to take adult responsabilities earlier; younglings charge into battle in early adolescence and brothers have sex with sisters. So what? Deal with it, or just drop the books, if you find it unbearable. I really find very cheap to produce a judgement on the writer from this.